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...Outside the smoke-filled Top Ten, where the Indonesian armed forces, or TNI, are fighting a bloody war against Acehnese separatists, a different military performance is being appraised, and with much less applause. Since the Suharto dictatorship collapsed in 1998, the Aceh conflict is viewed as one indicator of just how much the TNI has changed?or, more often, hasn't. For 32 years, the Indonesian armed forces propped up Suharto's hard-line rule with killings, torture and kidnappings, while senior officers grew rich from corrupt business deals and helped thwart political reform. By 1998, no institution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back On The March | 5/13/2002 | See Source »

...running for re-election, was taunted by bystanders at Fortuyn's funeral on Friday and chose to leave the cathedral by a back door. "The politicians are always compromising, never solving anything," says Peter Ver A, 42, who owns a Rotterdam "coffee shop" where customers can smoke hashish and marijuana. "The usual politicians just didn't see the problem of crime. People want everybody to follow the rules." Dutch rules, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Culture Shock | 5/13/2002 | See Source »

...plan—which proudly boasts of a cap to noxious sulfur dioxide emissions—actually rolls back previous restrictions on coal-fired power plants. Moreover, the supposed cap is estimated by environmental groups to be too high to make any meaningful difference and acts instead as a smoke screen to protect heavy polluters. And if this meaningless cap were not enough to reject the “Clean Skies” initiative, there is also a clause in the bill that allows a system of “credits” so that older, pollution-heavy plants...

Author: By Daniel E. Fernandez, | Title: Planting a Tree is Not Enough | 5/8/2002 | See Source »

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club choose their stage effects to match their music. Wreathed in smoke and dressed in tastefully tattered black, the threesome conjure up a hurricane of sound so dense and vital you would swear they had another guitarist stashed away in the back, hidden behind the smoke machine. Guitarist Peter Hayes and bassist Robert Turner stoically grind out rock the likes of which has been neither seen nor heard for years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rebels With a Cause | 5/3/2002 | See Source »

...crowd and reenactors as the British gave an order for the Minute Men to withdraw. They did not move. The British advanced. And then a shot was fired. Volleys of fire criss-crossed the green and the Minute Men fled with British in pursuit. When the heavy amount of smoke cleared, eight colonials were dead. The Minute Men survivors returned to the green, the crowd gave a rousing cheer and everyone dispersed to pancake breakfast at Lexington’s local churches...

Author: By Jessica S. Zdeb, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Shot Heard 'Round the World Is Still Ringing In My Ears | 5/2/2002 | See Source »

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